Sometimes satire says a thousand times more than explanatory criticism every could. Martin Robbins lays out a scathing satire of most scientific journalism that, quite frankly, is spot on. Scientific reporting in mainstream media is abysmal. While major news outlets are not generally known for their ‘fair and balanced’ reporting in general, they surpass themselves [...]

Episode 53, is all about Social Media growing pains and the fact that we’ve arrived at the Age of Streaming Media. We break down what happened when Facebook broke down, alongside Twitter’s recent security issues. As for streaming media; we talked about all the set-top boxes last week, but this week, it’s really about the [...]

Welcome to Episode 52 people, where Apple reigns the conversation!  Apple drops new iPods, iTunes 10 and a new Apple TV. Ping falters as Apple forgets to add their Genius tech. The team gets into how to get the hell off the narcotic that is the cable We also speak about some tablet updates. And [...]

Episode 51!  Facebook’s new places feature has been alive for a week and there’s already a follow-up.  Google and Yahoo announce new moves in the Realtime Search market and Digg debuts it’s new version 4.x interface— Chris, Dwayne and Devindra break down what the big deal is. They also go into the headlines spawned by [...]

The big Five-Oh! Devindra, Dwayne, and Chris go on about Facebook’s newly launched Places feature and whether it’s worth abandoning traditional geo-location social networks. They also head into the Intel purchase of McAffee, using the available data to look at where Intel’s heading a decade into the Third Millenuim. And then, of course, there’s the [...]

In this Episode, Dwayne and Chris are joined by Patrick Roanhouse of the Plan8 Podcasst. It’s all about Tech and Society– Literally. While law enforcement’s been using video as evidence in crimes for years, how does the flipside work in an age where every cell phone is a video camera, especially when social media allows [...]

The oil spewed from a mile beneath the gulf for around eighty days before being cappedn ad hopefully, eventually plugged. In the meantime, government scientists who studied the phenomenon via the underwater video cameras estimate as many as 50,000 barrels of oil spewed from the broken well every day– that’s four million barrels of crude [...]

About a week ago, AT&T unveiled some new data plans in advance of the WWDC iPhone 4 announcement. Rather than paying $30 for unlimited data, users would now have something of a choice: $15 for 200mb of data over 3G (dubbed DataPlus) OR $25 for 10x that much, or 2gb of data over 3G (dubbed [...]

When I first heard about Twitter in 2007, my initial reaction was something along the lines of “That is the silliest idea I have ever heard of.”  Time has proven me wrong and I was determined not to make the same mistake with the newest hot trend in the social web: GeoLocation based social networks [...]

When the first computers were being developed, every functional aspect of the computer had to be programmed into every program.  Want your program to use a keyboard? You would have to program your punch-cards to handle this.  Want to output to a printer? You have to do that too.  Eventually, machines became powerful enough and [...]